TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction to the thematic set: Tectonics and petroleum systems of East Africa
JF - Petroleum Geoscience
JO - Petroleum Geoscience
SP - 3
LP - 7
DO - 10.1144/petgeo2017-105
VL - 24
IS - 1
AU - Macgregor, Duncan
AU - Argent, John
AU - Sansom, Pamela
Y1 - 2018/02/01
UR - http://pg.lyellcollection.org/content/24/1/3.abstract
N2 - This paper provides an overview of a series of papers to be published within two issues of Petroleum Geoscience in 2018 expressing the theme ‘tectonics and petroleum systems of East Africa’. These papers partly result from the Geological Society of London's Petroleum Group conference in April 2016 on ‘East Africa; From Research to Reserves'. The theme of this conference highlighted the advances that have been made since a previous East Africa conference as a result of the recent major exploration efforts. This issue (February 2018) concentrates on the regional tectonics and include overviews of our current understanding of Permian to Mesozoic rifting (Macgregor), Tertiary rifting (Purcell), the plate tectonic model (Reeves), and of the development of the East African margin (Davison &amp; Steel). The August 2018 issue is planned to include more basin and regional specific papers on the Kenyan rift system, offshore Somalia, offshore Tanzania and offshore Mozambique.This first series of papers provides a comprehensive summary of our developing state of knowledge of regional tectonics across East Africa and its influence on petroleum systems. While there were a number of oral papers presented at this and subsequent conferences which provided greater detail on the numerous petroleum discoveries across the region that have been made this century, it would appear that this compilation was too early for operators to release such data in writing and as yet, we are still lacking many peer reviewed papers on East African petroleum systems. Table 1 presents a brief summary of our knowledge of the most significant discoveries in each basin which, in terms of reserve additions, make East Africa the most globally successful region in this century for frontier conventional exploration. In keeping with the tectonic diversity and complexity of the region, these individual fields have little in common with each other, …
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